Value of Environmental Agencies' In current times man has become so consumed with weapons and money that the planet has been neglected. With something so typical and now common as chopping down the rainforest to produce trees for mass abundance of political paper and land to graze more cattle this thoughtless destruction, disturbs all aspects of the environment. This is business as usual. The lands being destroyed are the most unique and diverse lands in the world. Chris Park Senior lecturer in the Department of Geographer at Lancaster University states, "The available statistics are impressive and... the rainforest's claim to fame as the richest ecological zone on earth"(26). In order to efficiently restore and protect the damaged land, animals, and people environmental agencies' must be valued.By destroying the forest, we are creating an open-door policy for disease. For example, the S.Amerindians have long adopted to endemic disease and have prevented them, in large part, by their adaptation to conditions of life over the 20,000 years they hhave inhabited the tropical forest. With the lumber companies invading these towns and villages, their western germs are exposing isolated, once-contained people. Kathlyn Gay, author of Rainforests of the World, mentions, "Indigenous people in many countries have died because of contact with outsiders-usually whites of northern European extraction-who have brought contagious diseases, ranging from measles to influenza, and sexually transmitted disease"(20). With the importance of the land resources comes the ever significance of the atmosphere. The atmosphere's most predictive component is the ozone layer. The distribution of the forests and multiplying of grazing cattle are causes immense damage to the ozone. John Nichol, head of Worldfest 90' production and marketing, alludes, "In Brazil and other countries in South and Central America the smoke from fires burning the jungle is so...
